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Thread: Buying glasses or contacts?
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04-27-2019, 10:07 PM #76
Too soon?
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04-27-2019, 10:16 PM #77Registered User
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Working on the HW I missed easy fixes cuz I couldnt see well enough with contacts to do the job, I also couldn't read road/street names on the fly at which point i gave up entirely on contacts, no point in trying to look good if I couldn't look good
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04-27-2019, 10:19 PM #78
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04-27-2019, 10:42 PM #79
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04-27-2019, 11:35 PM #80
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04-28-2019, 12:34 AM #81
That’s shitty. HR can’t talk to a carrier on your behalf but an advocate service can with your consent. Sounds like you don’t have one.
If your company has an EAP that may have a free resource.
Good luck
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04-29-2019, 03:21 PM #82Banned
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I have a pair with drivewear...they allegedly darken but I haven't noticed any appreciable if any change in darkness. Even in direct sunlight. So don't depend no them for sunglasses. And at night they're too dark especially when driving where there are street lights and contrast changes appreciably.
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04-29-2019, 08:21 PM #83
Huh, weird. I have a pair too that I use for driving and occasionally riding mtb, and mine do change with the light. They don't ever get clear, so I don't use them at night, but I feel like I could use them all the time for sunglasses (but I live in the pnw)
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04-29-2019, 09:19 PM #84Funky But Chic
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The constant glow from his red ass messes up the transition process.
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04-29-2019, 10:19 PM #85Registered User
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Back when I had transition lenses, they certainly got darker in sunlight. Maybe not as dark as the darkest sunglasses, but good enough.
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04-30-2019, 01:12 PM #86
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04-30-2019, 01:59 PM #87Banned
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05-02-2019, 04:45 PM #88Registered User
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My experience with the online bargains is that they aren’t so great when you add
Bifocal
Progressive
Transitions
High index so my eyes don’t look big
Higher quality glass
Etc.
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05-02-2019, 08:31 PM #89
Transition lenses are the bomb in climates like Tahoe, but if I’d stayed in Seattle I’m sure I’d have gone the LASIK route.
Since regular Transition lenses don’t darken in the car, I just keep prescription sunglasses with a medium tint in both vehicles. Felix & Iris I think. Cheap enough to just leave them in there.Know of a pair of Fischer Ranger 107Ti 189s (new or used) for sale? PM me.
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05-03-2019, 12:43 PM #90
All of this talk of Transition lenses made me curious if anyone has tried the new Acuvue Oasys with Transitions contacts?
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05-03-2019, 01:43 PM #91Funky But Chic
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Those things must make you look kinda freaky when they get dark. Like you have no soul.
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05-03-2019, 01:57 PM #92
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05-03-2019, 02:05 PM #93
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05-03-2019, 02:16 PM #94
I buy a nice pair with insurance at optometrist and then found some decent ones for work and other beater type environs from Costco. Sometime the have a sale, and they do a lot of the extra stuff (coating, etc) for free that optometrist charges for.
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07-12-2019, 02:15 PM #95
Just got an eye exam (finally) and have one small eye floater. Never had this before but at a -7.00 contact RX, eye DR said this isn't unusual (even though I'm upper 20s). Retinas looked fine. Anyone else have these before? I have definitely noticed it out of nowhere the past 2 months - slightly annoying in bright light and white contrast backgrounds.
And looking at their frame options, honestly I feel like the warby parker frames I have are the same mid-quality plastic. New glasses and lenses there would cost $350+, whereas warby parker are $130. And my eye insurance only cover exams and up to $130/yr towards glasses/contacts.
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07-12-2019, 03:18 PM #96Scientists now have decisive molecular evidence that humans and chimpanzees once had a common momma and that this lineage had previously split from monkeys.
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07-27-2019, 09:41 AM #97
Sharing an experience that might be of value to some, which, for me, solved the problem above^.
Visonworks, a national chain, was advertising a '2 pairs for $99' deal for progressives. I have no vision insurance and have a couple pairs of high quality glasses which run $500-ish each. I figured I'd give the cheap ones a try and at worst would only be out $99 if they sucked. Their only Seattle area location was inconvenient for me but again, figured it was worth a try. I was pleasantly surprised.
They have an optometrist in the shop so I had an exam, for which I was due, and I liked the guy, he had what appeared to be state of the art equipment, and he was very helpful around trying (but ultimately failing) to bill my insurance. I took the new scrip and went into the shop.
The $99 deal is on a somewhat limited selection of frames, none particularly interesting, but I found two frames that worked OK and I felt OK about wearing. I have ultra-narrow-face-disease so frames can be a challenge. It's also for their very baseline product, so they do attempt to do some upselling - better lenses, coatings, anti-glare, Transitions, etc.- during the order process, but it wasn't obnoxious. The upgrades would have significantly changed the pricing.
I told the dude what I was doing and wanted the baseline lens and the upselling stopped. I did have one pair tinted for sunglasses in G-15 color (their tinting looks a little lighter than other sunglasses of that color) which was a $10 upgrade. I don't like polarized because I cannot see my phone with those.
It took about 10 days to get the notification they were ready and when I went to pick them up they had forgotten the tint on the one pair, but re-did those and shipped them to me a few days later after I reminded them they'd agree do to so. So service was friendly and attentive, a little slipshod, and was not surprising considering the price.
I was pleasantly surprised by the quality for the price. I had read that in cheap lenses the lower part of the lens - the magnification part - can be small which makes the lens workable but not ideal. I did find this to be the case when I had a pair of progressive sunglasses made by Opticsplanet.com.
The visionworks lenses do not have this problem and work just fine. The lower part of the lens is plenty wide. If I could get nicer, more interesting frames I'd absolutely do this again but it was certainly worth the $ to have a backup pair around the house and a pair of scrip sunglasses that can live in the car.
I was told they run this promotion several times a year, and they frequently have others that look pretty good if you don't go down the upgrade rabbit hole.
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08-11-2020, 09:02 PM #98
Following up on this about a year and a half later. In the past year and a half I've had probably 15 ophthalmology visits and I've seen 5 different doctors.
They have all told me that my condition is a once in a career condition for them. None of them have ever seen anything like it. It's a combination of a rare corneal dystrophy (microscopic cysts in the outer lens of my cornea) and something that looks like keratoconus (misshapen, cone-like corneas), but in a unique form that no one has ever seen before.
A couple of the doctors have told me that they've only ever seen the dystrophy in textbooks and never in person. That alone is rare, this other condition is something they've never seen. My vision is a combination of hazy/blurry, like looking through a dirty windshield (from the dystrophy) and also streaky, causing lights to have a big starburst pattern at night and causing depth perception issues and visual distortions at night (from the misshapen cornea issues)
Condition 2 (keratoconus like syndrome) is having a more negative affect on my vision worse than condition 1 (dystrophy), so the treatment plan has been to try to correct for condition 2.
So, I've been on a treatment path of sorts. Last year I tried rigid glass permeable lenses that caused a lot of pain because of the cysts in my cornea. I then went to glasses, which corrected my vision to around 20/40.
A year later and now I'm using an extended toric soft lense, which has gotten my vision to about 20/30. Last year I gave up mountain biking because of having major issues with seeing the trail. I'm now back to being able to see well enough to bike which is a huge plus.
I've been told I may ultimately need a corneal transplant or a surgery to try to stop the progression of condition 2. Condition 1 makes me a less than ideal candidate though since my body will accept the new cornea and then start developing cysts in it all over again.
I did, unfortunately, get a prognosis this spring that things had progressed after a year which kicked off a series of additional tests and doctor visits. The plan for now is to wait 6 months and do more testing to see if things have progressed again. Fingers crossed that things stabilize and I don't lose more visual acuity. It sucks to not be able to see well. I really miss seeing the stars clearly.
/end blog
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08-11-2020, 09:35 PM #99
Damn, kevo. Hoping for the best for ya.
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08-12-2020, 10:44 AM #100
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